I mean small like I sneeze and a 20 dollar bill appears in my hand or something like that. Not classic answers like flying or super strength.
To actually fall asleep within a few minutes of laying in bed, and stay asleep until I actually need/want to be awake.
I used to have insomnia that came from anxiety about my future (I’m guessing.) When I started doing carpentry and started truly exhausting my body I gained the ability to sleep ANYWHERE ANY TIME FOR HOWEVER LONG I WANTED.
It’s seriously amazing. I’m 33 now and don’t have to work quite as hard, plus am used to the long shifts that are hard on your body. I can still sleep pretty much whenever, wherever.
I flew to England once (it was like a 14 hour flight) and seriously slept the entire time. I didn’t even have a window seat.
I did residential construction for a couple years, then 4 in the military, so no stranger to physical exhaustion… Insomnia hit even in those times.
The only way to predictably get a decent chunk of sleep is to kind of bank hours in the days leading up to it. Like if get 0 to maybe 3 hours per night through the work week, I’ll sleep like a baby come Saturday.
Never been on meds for it. Was afraid to report it when I was active duty (fucking stupid) and now my rating isn’t high enough to cover prescriptions and I don’t have regular health insurance so… can’t afford them. :-/
I’ve used ambien and that L one. Benefit/negatives = not worth it. My husband and friends switched to trazodone (safer and cheaper) and really like it. I’ve learned to put myself to sleep quickly by focusing hard on relaxing each body part for 3 breaths, starting with feet, ankles, lower legs, … When i wake up in the middle of the night it’s harder, but i can usually do it if i concentrate. Oh, when I’m really struggling, adding cannabis helps.
Trazadone works really well. The only drawback I find his if I need to use the bathroom during the night (getting older sucks) - makes me feel really unsteady kind of like I’m drunk.
Ugh brutal man. I hope one day you can sleep well :(
Here’s hoping. Cracking away at nursing prerequisites, so assuming that path goes as planned, I’m a couple years away from a job as a nurse, which will hopefully translate to a large enough pay check to afford health insurance.
Light at the end of the tunnel.
You can do it. I believe in you.
Thanks! It’s going well so far! Actually rocking a 4.0, but the class I’m in now (microbiology) will likely be putting an end to that. Confident in a passing grade at least, and that’s all I really need for admission into the nursing program. Things are moving along!
Fuck yeah! I’m a stupid tradesman so I don’t exactly know what 4.0 means, but it sounds high. I know from TV that it means good. But I don’t know why haha
I have the monkey paw version of this where I can fall asleep instantly but can’t stay asleep, I wake up several times throughout the night
Yeah, I get this too kinda. I find I get really vivid dreams when wake up but fall back asleep
It’s called alcohol
The ability to know exactly where anything I think of is located.
[Breathing Intensifies]
- Captain Jack Sparrow
You could make some serious money with this power. You could find anyone’s lost pet or keepsake.
Hoffa?
I’m definitely thinking historic lost treasure hunter would be an amazing career!
Any insect that touches my skin realizes the error of its ways and peacefully leaves me alone.
Undo button.
what if you go back too much and accidentally undo your birth
Good.
same tbh
Nobody asked to be born
Don’t see the problem
I’d never know.
the ability to know the right thing to say in every conversation
I was thinking the inability to speak falsehoods would be useful for troubleshooting. “The problem is with the router.” Nope. Not the router. “The problem is with the modem.”…
Social engineering. I use it to get people to listen to be so they don’t die.
The ability to fall asleep instantly, anywhere, and choose exactly how long to sleep… And get a full rest regardless of how long that is.
Skyrim IRL
If you get a full rest regardless of the sleep length, why sleep for more than a minute or two?
Because I want to fall asleep and wake up with my wife. It’d be lonely staying up all night by myself.
I’d be too tempted to take a 10 year nap.
Gotta hope they check your pulse right or they might just bury you after a few years. Imagine trying to figure out where you could lay down for 10 years. Immediately got overwhelmed thinking about paying rent and all the work I’d miss. House over run by plant life and roof started leaking until the black mold set in and half of the house collapsed on you laying there… yikes
Sleep for 1 hour but with all of the benefits of 8 hours.
Just the ability to fall asleep instantly would be a godsend
For me I’d also like to add that I wouldn’t wake up just because a loud car drove by. I can sleep fast, but staying asleep is difficult
Cleaning up / scrubbing / etc. is as effortless as it appears on commercials.
When in an argument I want the ability to know what my opponent has to say in advance so I can always interrupt and finish their sentences. Every single one of them.
There are a couple scenes in edge of tomorrow where this is essentially happening. I love the Tom Cruise/Brendan Gleeson conversation
I usually don’t like Tom Cruse but the movie is awesome. Saw it many times.
How to be a JoJo character
I have a disease which limits what I can eat, therefor the ability to digest any food or drink comfortably.
Makes you think that the things you take for granted on a daily basis can be a super power for someone else
Yup. Health is the most important thing you can have.
Not quite mind control, but I’d like the ability to blast common sense into morons minds by looking at them. Like a psychic mind dart that says, “maybe this line has a purpose and I should get in queue instead of trying to force my way in from the outside” or “maybe I should listen to the sign that says ‘don’t put your kid on a railing above tiger enclosure.’”
Only needing an hour or two of sleep per night, but getting all the rejuvenating effects of a perfect night’s sleep. I hope I would be productive with that time.
I would ABUSE this power
Why not just get rid of the need for sleep all together but still have the ability to sleep when you want if you want to?
That’d be preferable but I wanted it to still be a very minor power
I was fantasizing about all the things I’d finally do. On second thought I’ll probably just use the night to scroll too lol.
If I can get a combo deal of; less sleep, super motivation, super disciple. That would be amazing. An extra 6-8 hours a day would be miraculous! Maybe I’d become like Batman
I’d like to be able to give people arch cramps by making eye contact and saying “bipity bopity boo” quietly.
We’re all here think of good things; you’re plotting nefarious powers.
Damnit…I’m in. The ability to make someone believe they have to go to the bathroom really bad but when they get there, nothing was really there. Someone starts to annoy you while you’re out somewhere, poof. They go a scuttling.
The ability to make someone believe they have to go to the bathroom really bad but when they get there, nothing was really there.
So, business as usual for men over 60? (Or so I’m told)
Prostate issues do exist. Hopefully you, I, and the rest of the world will get lucky
I’m a simple man with simple desires. I’m also probably chaotic natural.
I would like to know every song’s lyrics upon hearing the first 10 seconds, think of the karaoke nights 🎤
The ability to turn most traffic lights green (not all of them just, like 90%), would basically be the reverse of my current super power of turning most traffic lights red
I think strobing lights set them off.
